Marcow Speiser, V. (2012). Towards an Understanding of the Israeli Context for Teaching and Learning. in Schwartz et al, The Arts and Social Change: The Lesley University Experience in Israel: Porat Books.

Marcow Speiser,V and Schwartz, S. (2011) . Reflections on the Development of the Lesley University Extension in Israel. In A Century of Innovation (eds) Brown, C.F. and Forinash, M. Baltimore: Publish America

Marcow Speiser, V. and Schwartz, S. (2011). These stories are burning a hole in my brain: Using the arts to tell the stories of the Jewish immigrant community in Israel. In Art in Action: Expressive Arts Therapy and Social Change, (eds) Levine, E. and Levine, S. London:Jessica Kingsley.

Marcow Speiser, V. and Schwartz, S. (2009). Reflections on the Development of the Lesley University Extension in Israel. Chapter in the Lesley Centennial Publication.

Marcow Speiser, V and Speiser,P . (2005) A Theoretical Approach to Working with Conflict through the Arts. In Marcow Speiser,V and Powell,C.(eds) The Arts, Education and Social Change . New York: Peter Lang

Recent Presentations

11/21/13 Keynote Session. Opening to Ritual . The Drama for Life Research Conference, University of the Witwatersrand. The Unfinished Business of Truth and Reconciliation: Arts, Trauma and Healing., Soweto, South Africa.

11/20/13 Workshop co-facilitator. Moving Through Trauma : Dance, Drama, Psychodrama and Expressive Therapy Approaches to Working with Trauma. The Drama for Life Research Conference, Soweto, South Africa.

12/11/12 Panelist and Panel Chair, On the Seam of Arts and Health: A survey of the Field of Arts and Health in Israel and around the world. The Israeli Society of Creative and Expressive Therapy annual conference. Jerusalem, Israel.

6/25/12 THE CENTRE FOR SOCIO-ECO-NOMIC DEVELOPMENT, GENEVA &INSTITUT ODeF , GENEVA - Re-Constructing the Social Fabric of Communities after War Traumas: Introductory workshop for humanitarian workers

5/-17/12 NEW DELHI, THE RAYS OF WISDOM INSTITUTE. Keynote address at Ancient Arts Festival/Conference: The Body as a Sacred Instrument

Humanizing an Inhumane World: Expression in the Service of Humanity through the Arts, APA, Division 32, Boston, MA August 15th 2008

An Authentic Movement Workshop. 7th International Congress on Psyche,Soma and Spirit , The University of Morales and Tonalzintli Institute, Cuernavaca, Mexico,February, 2007

Panel on Identity as an Artist and Therapist (panel participant ) 7th International Congress on Psyche,Soma and Spirit , The University of Morales and Tonalzintli Institute, Cuernavaca, Mexico, February, 2007

Holding Suffering, Holding Beauty: A Faculty Group Presentation from Moving and Witnessing together in our Authentic Movement Collective. Igniting the Synapses Conference, Lesley University April 2006

Mothers and Sons. (co-presented with Julia Byers) Raising Cain: Emotional Development of Boys IBMS conference Lesley University February 2006

Authentic Movement as a Meditative Practice. Faculty development day workshop. Lesley University, January 2006

Vivien Marcow Speiser has directed and taught in programs across the United States and internationally and has used the arts as a way of communicating across borders and across cultures. She believes in the power of the arts to create the conditions for personal and social change and transformation. Her interests and expertise lie in the areas of working with trauma and cross-cultural conflict resolution through the arts and she has worked extensively with groups in the Middle East and in South Africa. In addition, she is an expert in the creation and performance of rites of passage rituals and in the use of dance and performance in expressive therapy practice.